Discussions of learning to teach for social justice generally focus on the social commitments, institutional structures, course content, and pedagogical processes that support prospective teachers. Missing from this array of foci is a consideration of how school students are positioned within teacher preparation and how their positioning and participation can inform prospective teachers’ prepar...

This article aims to evaluate the strategic positioning and ideology of the Conservatives in Coalition, under the leadership of David Cameron. In so doing, it seeks to shed light on the key drivers of the party’s elite leadership strategy since entering government in 2010. The analysis is framed in terms of statecraft, namely the attempt to carve out elite control of the main fields of ‘high po...

Key industries such as the automotive, electronic, medical and laboratory technical industries have continually rising demands for precise manufacturing, handling and control techniques. This is true for the manufacture of injection nozzles for engines as indeed also for the irradiation of extremely fine wafer structures and in the field of scanning probe microscopy. Some examples from research...

The Amigo Context Management Service (CMS) provides an open infrastructure for the exchange of contextual information between context sources and context clients. Whereas context sources supply context information, retrieved from sensors or services within the networked home environment, context clients utilize those information to become context-aware. An ambient communication scenario realizi...

In this contribution a project is presented which aims to expand and update the course material for the education of future teachers in Swedish as a foreign language. Due to new patterns of global migration in the last decades, the existing material needs to be complemented, which entails further analysis and description. As global migration affects Sweden in a similar way to many other countri...

In analyzing the situation, it is clear that most crime and violence is local in scope, affecting primarily the direct victim and local community. However, there is also a global dimension to the causes and, potentially, the solutions. For example, in the case of Latin America, the demand for illegal drugs in the USA and Europe has a clear impact on drug supply and organized crime in a number o...

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) are attracting increasing interest in the e-learning domain. However, the term Personal Learning Environment is used in a variety of different ways in the field. This paper firstly draws distinctions between the term PLE and similar terms. It then discusses the dimensions which characterise current conceptions of PLEs, thereby defining a space of PLEs. Thre...